Caduti

Oliviero Rainaldi’s artistic trajectory is at the same time a spiritual pathway. The artist has always had a great interest in the reinterpretation of traditional religious iconography in a new formal light. In order to examine the relationship between art and liturgy in depth, he enrolled in various courses of theology and undertook thorough study of the Bible and Christian literature. The reading of Genesis was a stimulus for reflection and creation for the artist, who worked for six years, until 1999, on a series of sculptures devoted to the stories of original sin, the flood and the repentant and redeemed figures found there.
In the work from the series exhibited here, a finely stylized figure with a bowed head, stark and smooth, devoid of physiognomic connotations, exemplifies the feelings of repentance peculiar to the fallen. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)